How my PTSD manifests—it feels like being the only ballerina in the company saddled with a 100-pound backpack and told to go out onstage and still be graceful.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2020 source ↗
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View all 52 →I’m not going to change anything about myself. I am happy and blessed with what God gave me, and I really have nothing to complain about.
If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
I would like to be less impulsive.
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View profile →Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
My son. He is a teenager.
A world where greed rules.
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
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